Federal Immigration Policies

Our immigration system is broken.

Instead of treating people with dignity and providing accessible channels for legal status, the current immigration system keeps families apart, encourages exploitation of workers, and is overly complex. We need legal channels to bring people out of the shadows, a system that people can go through and not around.

We need to immediately address the mass deportation and detention of immigrant communities.

While PICC will continue to fight for a permanent solution to our broken immigration system, in the meantime, we will work to stop the mass deportation and detention of immigrants and refugees. These efforts include:

Campaign to Shut Down Berks: PICC is working to shut down the Berks Family Detention Center, one of four immigrant family detention centers in the country

Passing policies to limit collaboration between local law enforcement and ICE. In 2014 PICC was part of the Philadelphia Family Unity Network, which passed one of the most progressive ICE Hold policies in the country.